BETA Release

[hutch--]

There is really only one solution and that is to use the original Microsoft library when it contains static code. If bandwidth was not a consideration and it was easy enough to licence, i would supply the complete SDK set of libraries but without that choice I started building the libraries which handle the API function set but not any of the COM functions.

If you need to build apps that need those libraries, the PLATFORMSDK is the only solution.

[japheth]

> There is really only one solution and that is to use the original Microsoft library when it contains static code.

One may possibly extract the GUIDs from the C header files without too much effort. Of course not "all", but for a project which is targeted for beginners the most common GUIDS of uuid.lib and dxguid.lib may suffice. The more experienced guys can easily update their libraries on their own if required, that's hardly a problem.

[Vortex]

Don't you think that this GUID stuff is over the level of a beginner?

[PBrennick]

In my modest opinion based on years of observation and programming in win32, the vast majority of the libraries are never used.  There may be 15 libs that suffice to do all jobs.  This is only an opinion and it will never cause me to restrict what is available because every now and then I stumble over a piece of code that uses an unusual lib.

Paul

[japheth]

Some of the GUIDs are used for directx, these should exist in the libs. The more sophisticated COM stuff is not required of course.